Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility.

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness

Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.

Art is the accomplice of love.

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time

Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.

Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

True wit is nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed.

I proceeded in my national mission, seeking to pave the way for an understanding between His Majesty and the other ruling princes of Arabia.

Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste.

True happiness is found in simple, seemingly unremarkable things.

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?

Morality is stronger than tyrants.

People retire to do what I do every day.

A lot of times people's main motives and plan in life is to hurt as many people as they can, but I think there's enough good people that help make the world a good place.